Hedonic and non-hedonic bias toward the future

• Main Authors: Greene, Preston, Latham, Andrew J., Miller, Kristie, Norton, James
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Humanities::Philosophy; Time Bias; Bias Toward The Future
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152075
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

It has widely been assumed, by philosophers, that our first-person preferences regarding pleasurable and painful experiences exhibit a bias toward the future (positive and negative hedonic future-bias), and that our preferences regarding non-hedonic events (both positive and negative) exhibit no suc...